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Breeding Cranes the first in the west for 400 years
Rushy Two Cranes from the Great Crane Project have built a nest and laid at least one egg in the Rushy. The pair, Monty the male and Christine the female have been the most active pair and were responsible for the earlier nest building efforts in front of
24 hour guard for western Britain’s first crane egg in four centuries
Click to watch crane webcam Conservationists at WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre in Gloucestershire have set up a round-the-clock guard to protect the first crane egg laid in western Britain in over 400 years. Hunting an
Latest Sightings
Today we saw two new spring arrivals; A Spotted Flycatcher was first heard on the Avenue and later relocated on the Back Bank on The Meadow. Last year this species bred on the reserve but usually we only tend to get passage birds. A Common Sandpiper was a
Recent Sightings
Peninsula Saltmarsh – 2 ringed plover on nest, 1 black tailed godwit Peninsula Field – 16 curlew, 1 whimbrel, 3 ringed plover, 5 shelduck Main Lake - 15 tufted ducks, 9 shelduck, Fresh Water Lagoon – 30 + swallows and swifts also spotted Sightings
Sundays sightings
RESERVE: Blue tit, Great tit, Nuthatch, Blackbird, Robin, Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Tree creeper, Wren, Water voles, Moorhens, Coots & chicks, Reed bunting, Mallards & ducklings, Peregrines, Red kites. LAPWING HIDE: 4 Grey lag geese & 15 goslings,
Todays Sightings
Holden Tower Cranes 9 Peregrine 1 Little Egret 1 Oystercatcher 2 Summer Walkway (now open) Curlew 10 Shelduck 80 Reed Warbler 8 Zeiss Hide Black Tailed Godwit 56 Redshank 1 Garganey 1 male Little Egret 1 Sedge Warbler 3 Reed Warbler 6 Kingfisher Hide King
Wildlife sightings for 18th May 2013
19 Lapwing chicks - wader scrape, grazing marsh, main lake 1 Ringed Plover - main lake 4 Redshank - wader scrape 2 Sedge Warbler - along path to Peacock tower, grazing marsh 2 Willow Warbler - both singing Wildside and Sheltered lagoon 1 Kestrel - hunti
Today's bird sightings
British Steel hide/estuary spoonbill, 11 whimbrel, 2 black tailed godwit, 33 shelduck, 14 little egret and peregrine. Lagoon 234 black tailed godwit, 220 black headed gull, 3 lapwing, 16 greylag goose, 11 gadwall, 14 mallard and 11 tufted duck. &nb
Out on the reserve today
Friends Hide Spoonbill - 2 Ruff - 1 Avocet - 10
Endangered ‘Ratty’ comes out to play
Safe haven by Kevin Wooby The cold, wet start to the summer has not affected the spirits of one wetland mammal as water voles are showing off in front of visitors to the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust at Welney. The un
Today's Sightings
Please Note: Black-Caps, Sedge warblers and Reed warblers can be seen and heard all over the site at the moment. Rushy Pen Avocet Black Tailed Godwit (2) Knott Hide Cetti's Warbler Shelduck (25) Holden Tower Oystercatcher (2) Shoveler (2) Shelduck (60)
Today's Sightings
Date: 17.05.13 Tide: High WADER LAKE Avocet - 11 Little Ringed Plover - 1 Common Tern - 32 Shelduck - 36 Oystercatcher - 2 Tufted Duck - 6 Shoveler - 1 SALINE LAGOON Tufted Duck - 16 Shelduck - 4 HAWTHORN WOOD Bullfinch - 3 Great
Wildlife sightings for 17th May 2013
2 Oystercatcher - main lake p.m. 9+ Lapwing chicks - wader scrape, grazing marsh 3 Redshank - wader scrape 5 Common Tern - reservoir lagoon, main lake 40+ Swift - over site 4 Swallow - reservoir lagoon 1 Garden Warbler - singing near Sand Martin bank To a
Out on the reserve today
Barn owl by Leigh Marshall Nelson-Lyle hide Spoonbill - 1 Friends hideRuff in summer plumage - 1 Greenshank - 2 Curlew - 2 Barn owl - 1 DON'T FORGET - we're open late tonight for the Evening safari event. Join us 6-
May Madness at Castle Espie - Be a Research Ranger for a day, Catch a Puppet Show or meet our Fluffy Ducklings!..
Spring is a time for New Life at our wetland reserve as goslings and ducklings hatch all around us and are regularly seen pattering and paddling after their parents. Dragonflies, insects and butterflies also emerge, along with toads, newts and frogspawn.